Tag Archives: HTML

As reported elsewhere, the Digital Publishing Interest Group has published its first two public Working Drafts. Beyond the content of those documents, the publication has another aspect worth mentioning. For the first time, “alternate” versions of the two documents have been published, alongside the canonical HTML versions, in EPUB3 format. Because EPUB3 is based on […]More…

For many years the main way to provide a text alternative for an image was to use the alt attribute. This has changed with the advent of WAI-ARIA. alt is still a valid, well supported attribute and is often one of the first things that developers learn to use when they create accessible web content. […]More…

Today, the HTML WG is publishing a set of new documents including Candidate Recommendations for HTML and Canvas, first drafts for HTML 5.1 and Canvas Level 2, and our first extension specification, the main Element. I thought that would...More…

Looking at it in terms of rebounds, plot twists, nurtured healing and abandonment, love and betrayal, strife, toil, stunning victories, dispersions and last minute rallies the only thing that distinguishes HTML's history from a charts-topping teenage fantasy saga seems...More…

There is a proposal for rechartering HTTP WG to start work on HTTP 2.0. The main discussions are happening on the webapps mailing list when the HTML WG is trying to finalize the few remaining open issues.More…

I’m just back from 3 weeks off. I’m restarting the Open Web Platform weekly summary with an incomplete summary of what happened in the last few weeks, but mostly things that caught my eyes. The next weeks editions will be hopefully better.More…

The Open Web Platform weekly summary is about love for the open Web, about the work we do together, about the hours we spent every day to create a better Web. I can work in this domain, because others gave an open environment for working. Let’s keep it open.More…

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